Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Smithsonian
Daisy Kadibil's Story of Escape Called Attention to the “Stolen Generations” of Aboriginal Australians
Smithsonian
In 1931, an 8-year-old Australian Aboriginal girl named Daisy Kadibil was snatched up by a local constable and taken from her family in the Pilbara region of western Australia to an assimilation camp some 800 miles away. Her sister Molly and her cousin ...

The Australian
Funds targeted kids for funeral insurance
The Australian
The sorry business of predatory funeral insurers pushing policies on indigenous Australians will be picked through by the royal commission as it investigates cases of company dealings with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Funeral insurers ...

The Australian
Searching for a home
The Australian
It's not as if there haven't been plans, almost as many as there have been West Australian arts ministers. Going back to the 1980s, a plan was hatched for an indigenous art centre that would “float” out from the banks of the Swan River. In 2007, the ...

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'Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from National Gallery of Australia' is a joint venture of the NGMA and the National Gallery of Australia, and features a range from paintings, prints, and photographs to sculptures and installations, revealing a great ...

NEWS.com.au
Bob Carr has renewed his call for a crackdown on immigration
NEWS.com.au
The former Foreign Minister, who in 2000 famously declared that “Sydney was full”, has warned that Australia must curb its population intake if it wishes to preserve its natural landmarks. In his new memoir, Run For Your Life, he offers this bleak ...
Grim vision for Australia in 2035Gympie Times

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Gizmodo Australia
The Gizmodo Guide To What's On In July
Gizmodo Australia
Code Like a Girl is an Australian organisation with the goal to reimagine the future for girls and women in the technology industry. The workshops at flagship Microsoft Store Sydney will be conducted by instructors with practical experience in the ...

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NEWS.com.au
'It's simply not good enough … to be leaving the next generation with a crisis like this'
NEWS.com.au
WHEN it comes to the loss of biodiversity, Australia has one of the worst records in the world, losing more mammals and plants in the past 200 years than any other country. Now a Senate inquiry is set to address the issue. Roughly 11 per cent of ...

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The Guardian
Ending 'aqua nullius': calls for laws to protect Indigenous water rights
The Guardian
... new plan to enshrine Aboriginal water rights in law and practice has been released, which gives governments a way to overturn “aqua nullius” and demands Aboriginal people have more say in how water is allocated and managed across Australia.

New York Times
'Somewhere in Australia,' Explained - The New York Times
New York Times
Digging into the New York Times archives, I discovered a heart-wrenching story about a former Australia correspondent from World War II.

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Aljazeera.com
Starting from scratch: Aboriginal group reclaims lost language
Aljazeera.com
Melbourne, Australia - Harry Dare remembers how, as a young man travelling around regional Australia in search of his roots, he would feel shame whenever he met an Aboriginal person who could speak in his or her native tongue. Taken from his family and ...

ABC News
Joyce Clague is an 80-year-old activist who still has a 'fire in her belly' to create change
ABC News
Joyce Clague has persevered through a childhood of racism and discrimination to become an international civil rights activists, playing a key role in the fight for Indigenous rights in Australia. Now 80, Joyce has had two strokes but is still a ...

The Guardian (blog)
How do we settle the 'statue wars'? Let's start by telling the truth about our past
The Guardian (blog)
Nothing quite divides community sentiments about the history of Australia's violent frontier quite like a vandalised statue dedicated to a killer of Indigenous people. And so it was in 2017 after the vandalisation of statues dedicated to James Cook ...

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The Guardian
Police investigate racist signs on Aboriginal land in Western Australia
The Guardian
“Hawthorn reported this matter to the Western Australian police immediately upon discovery, and is assisting them with their investigations. The company finds the posters highly offensive, and takes any allegations surrounding them seriously.” ...

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ABC News
Prime Minister's chief Indigenous adviser Chris Sarra resigns from advisory council
ABC News
Professor Sarra said by making governments engage more directly with Indigenous Australians "charlatans" could no longer come in and tell the Government they had "all the answers". "The challenge of doing things with people not to them means having to ...

SBS
Upholding the big ideas: Heavyweights provide legal pathway for voice to parliament
SBS
Subsequently, Mr Turnbull rejected the calls for a constitutionally-enshrined Voice to Parliament because it lacked detail. Just last week, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion echoed these sentiments. "We need to have some detail, Australia ...

The Conversation AU
UN set to review Australia's record on women's rights – and may find it wanting
The Conversation AU
Australia has a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. It was elected on a bid built on five pillars, including gender equality and Indigenous people's rights. However, we're seeing little improvement on women's rights and a concerning deterioration in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Past failures demand we open our hearts to Indigenous voices
The Sydney Morning Herald
Uphold and Recognise, an organisation committed to reconciling two imperatives: to uphold the Australian Constitution and to recognise Indigenous Australians, has joined with the Australian Catholic University to produce a policy document: Upholding ...

Brisbane Times
Past failures demand we open our hearts to Indigenous voices
Brisbane Times
Uphold and Recognise, an organisation committed to reconciling two imperatives: to uphold the Australian Constitution and to recognise Indigenous Australians, has joined with the Australian Catholic University to produce a policy document: Upholding ...

The Quint
Why These SE Asian Descendants Want Indigenous Australians Status
The Quint
In 1826, an English merchant, Alexander Hare, brought a group of people from Malaysia and Indonesia as well as South Africa and New Guinea to an atoll northwest of mainland Australia in the Indian Ocean. Hare took them to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands as ...

The Australian
Atlassian survey reveals how Australians view diversity
The Australian
A survey of Australian technology workers by global software firm Atlassian found 57 per cent of respondents said they identified Black or African-American people were 'part of diversity', while 48 per cent said indigenous peoples were part of diversity.

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